Posted on 06/06/2013 4:56:00 PM PDT by Nachum
The Washington Post has published a remarkable report showing that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been monitoring the central servers of major Internet companies -- Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple -- and "extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a persons movements and contacts over time."
Why did a government source leak information of this program, dubbed "PRISM," to the Post? What follows is perhaps the most chilling paragraph I've read to date about U.S. government surveillance:
Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type, the officer said.
In the wake of last night's Guardian report about the NSA's collection of Verizon phone user metadata, the New York Times editorial board argued that the Obama administration "has now lost all credibility" in defending its abuses of executive power. That was before the report about PRISM, which unlike the Verizon metadata, includes surveillance of user content.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
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Thanks for the tip. Hope I don’t find out 6 months from now that they are full of crap.
This long chain of recent weekly “scandals” are a diversion from the real Presidency killer, the Benghazi debacle....
BINGO!
I am sure it is just a coincidence the White Hut Dumped 97 pages of Benghazi docs on Friday after 5pm this week.
I’ll bet there’s a hell of a witch-hunt to find this guy.
“Grampa, that is what I am thinking. Steve Jobs refused to play their games, and he had deep enough pockets that they were afraid to mess with him.”
Also, probably a large % of IPhone/Pad and Mac owners are $ contributing liberal voters. Obozo didn’t want to get into a public dustup with Jobs before the Nov. election.
“I am sure it is just a coincidence the White Hut Dumped 97 pages of Benghazi docs on Friday after 5pm this week.”
Some of us were wondering what would be in the Friday pm dumping of info demanded from the hut.
I speak of the idea of America. Its principles. Its traditions. Its ideals. Its vision. (#22)
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Your comments, ought-six, with Ezekiel's linked verses, brought tears to my eyes. I thank God for the PASSION that continues to make this country great. It can not be taken from us.
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“re Somebodys Watching Me - by Rockwell...”
Oh please, stop, stop!!! You monsters, now that song is stuck in my head.
The more disturbing thing was that they got enough information to send a dozen different campaign e-mail versions out at the same time, tailored to the recipients -based on the information collected with their 80 some cookies they loaded on the computers of site visitors. That’s worse than double-click.
I think maybe another shoe will drop this coming week. Or maybe a whole shoe store.
Thank you, Cyn.
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